Where Was Hallmark’s ‘The Mistletoe Inn’ Filmed?

Hallmark’s newest Countdown to Christmas movie, The Mistletoe Inn, is about an aspiring novelist who finds love when she goes on a writing retreat. Hallmark has a wonderful way of filling their movies with Christmas magic, snow, and a wintry feel no matter when or where they’re filmed. But that special retreat where our main character discovered love won’t be found in the United States. Like many Hallmark movies, this film was shot in Canada.

BC is such a popular location for Christmas films that What’sFilming referred to it in August as being in “a perpetual state of Christmas.” Hallmark also filmed A Gift to Remember and The Christmas Train in BC around the same time.

Norman Rudy’s in Squamish (It’s a beautiful restaurant with views of mountains, forests, and ponds from a massive patio at The Executive Inn & Suites.)

The New York scene showed the Birks store sign at the corner of West hastings and Granville in Vancouver, a commenter noted below.

The very beginning of the movie was filmed in Unionville, Ontario, a commenter noted below.

Much like many other Hallmark Christmas movies, the moviewas filmed in August and early September. A talented production crew was able to turn the hotter summer months into a winter wonderland that’s very convincing.

How does Hallmark give its movies such a wintery feel, even in the summer? Much of this is due to the crew. Jamie Lake, production manager for a different Hallmark Christmas movie, told The Wall Street Journal, “Every movie wants that small cute town and there’s only so many small, cute towns within driving distance of the film zone [Vancouver area].”

So how is snow made in the summer? There are different ways, including snow blankets, a product called Krendl that’s tough to clean, fire-retardant foam, ice shavings taken from ice blocks, snow from ski slope machines, and crushed limestone. Whichever method they choose for a film, it always seems to work.

Mistletoe Inn is part of a collection of books by Richard Paul Evans, a New York Times bestselling author.